sheer in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for sheer in the English»French Dictionary (Go to French»English)

I.sheer [Brit ʃɪə, Am ʃɪr] ADJ

II.sheer [Brit ʃɪə, Am ʃɪr] ADV

sheer away VB [Brit ʃɪə -, Am ʃɪr -], sheer off VB

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it's sheer drudgery
by sheer manpower

Translations for sheer in the French»English Dictionary (Go to English»French)

sheer in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for sheer in the English»French Dictionary (Go to French»English)

Translations for sheer in the French»English Dictionary (Go to English»French)

sheer Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

by (sheer) force of numbers
it's sheer lunacy
American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Nearly every street was lined with trees, and each hill that was too sheer to build on was topped by a toupee of plant life.
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Can you imagine the sheer terror if a 10-foot, armour-plated fish suddenly surfaced next to your canoe?
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But apart from sheer escapism the music carries a considerable emotional heft.
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The problem was that the sheer number of people they stopped guaranteed that stop-and-frisk would get untethered from that logic.
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Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.
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Perhaps the largest obstacle to testing occurs with the sheer diversity of nanoparticles, of which the only unifying factor is their minuscule size.
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Lumps of the hulk were lifted up the sheer cliffs using ropes and pulleys, the salvers using rope ladders for access.
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Although all problems are theoretically resolvable it is estimated this would take at least 17 months and the sheer number of issues would prohibit a practical inspection regime.
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Police, overwhelmed by the sheer size of the crowd, pulled out.
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She was captured in 1780, converted to a sheer hulk in 1791 and was broken up in 1816.
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